The Last Refuge

We are self-identified as The Last Refuge for a very specific reason.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.”

-Alexander Tytler


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[…]  When Congress refuses to act, and as a result, hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, then I have an obligation as President to do what I can without them. (Applause.)

I’ve got an obligation to act on behalf of the American people. And I’m not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we were elected to serve. (Applause.)

Not with so much at stake, not at this make-or-break moment for middle-class Americans. We’re not going to let that happen.

President Barack Obama (2012) (more…)

Be Careful What You Ask For….. You Just Might Get it…

In November 2010, during the “lame duck” legislative session post-election, I took considerable heat via mocking and ridicule for a fundamentally abhorrent position to Republicans.   I said then:  “give President Obama everything he wants” !

Which included:

  • Elimination of Bush tax rates (all of them)
  • A new $1 Trillion + Omnibus spending bill which people called “Porkulous”
  • Repeal of Don’t ask Don’t Tell
  • Extension of Unemployment Benefits 
  • The 9/11 First responders payoffs bill
  • and more….

Because this was the 2010 “rebuke” election where President Obama had just been delivered a “shellacking” by the conservative takeover of the House of Representatives, many people openly ridiculed me as ‘out-of-my-mind’. (more…)

Part V – “A New America” – Unsustainable Governance, Isolation, Globalization….

Everything we outline in this series: “The New America” is beyond a speculative doubt. This is WHAT WILL HAPPEN – Please do not question intellectual honesty and years of research – counter if you choose – but as the sun rises tomorrow, so too will these things come to pass.

  • Part I Here  – 10 Fundamentals – Pragmatically paying back the winners.
  • Part II Here – Faith Based Acceptance – Care for your family
  • Part III Here  – The 51st State – how to embedd dependency
  • Part IV Here –  The “new” legislative process – Senate New Approach

These are not “predictions” per se’ any more than assembling the puzzle pieces and accepting the completed picture is bearing witness.    This part will deal with known goals and long term agenda objectives during T-2. (more…)

Budget Smudget…. OMG !!! Fiscal Cliff? Dems Demand Bi-Partisan Cooperation ! Media Calls Republicans Obstructionists….

*Note:  The last budget ever signed into law was signed in September 2007 by George W. Bush.  Since then the Democrat party has manipulated the political sphere to insure all spending happens by “Continuing Resolution”, thereby embedding the “Stimulus” into the baseline budget of all spending moving forward.   When the Dems began this process the entire accumulated national Debt was $8.5 Trillion (July 1776 to Sept 2007) – It is now grown beyond $16 Trillion in 5 years….

The unbearable hypocrisy of the Democrat party, supported by the irrelevent Institutional Legacy Media, is really annoying today.   I don’t know if I can survive four years of this…

The latest two examples are the “Fiscal Cliff” from President Obama’s Sequestration can-kicking, and the pontificating demands of the progs for “bi-partisan support”.   (Bi-Partisan is leftist code word for ‘give us what we demand’ or we’ll call you obstructionists). (more…)

Part I – A New America: Pragmatist Honesty – What All Of This Means…..

I write this not as a partisan, but as one American who has been engaged in extensive political research for five solid years.   The picture in our current banner is reflective of my feeling right now:  Hands outstretched toward the heavens asking “why”?   Not why did Mitt Romney lose, but why cannot our citizenry see what they just did?

By now most of you know my approach at understanding events, and their surrounding outcomes.  Events that create both intended, and unintended consequences.

That approach is research; pure research to understand the specifics of the circumstances and understand the mindset behind the people within the events being portrayed.

The “why” is more valuable than the “what”.

So I hope you will digest this analysis with the understanding this is not a series of guesses, projections, or predictions.   This is merely assembling the puzzle bits – organizing them, placing them into their logical pattern of connectivity – then standing back and looking at what is factually evident within the assembly. (more…)

“V” Day —- “V” for Voting and “V” for VICTORY!!!

Tuesday the Sixth of November ,  2012, anno Domini.

Today is the Day.

Today is the Day that YOU – each of you – have the opportunity to secure Victory and to restore America’s greatness.

Do not go to bed tonight wondering if you could have done “more”.

Vote – and vote for Victory.         🙂

One.More.Day – United Or Divided – Two Americas or One Nation Under God?

It has been an exhausting slog this journey, this adventure.   Along the way we’ve had some truly shockingly cruel things said about us purely because we believe in limited government and fiscal conservatism.

We’ve been called extremists, hobbits, gun-toting bitter bible clingers, the enemy and more, much more.    Why?   Because in a larger sense we simply belive that we, as Americans, should be self-reliant and personally responsible;  but also we believe that when we are allowed to depend on ourselves, we are stronger, more successful, take greater pride in ourselves and our work, and are more likely to make positive contributions to society. (more…)

Pelosi Spews: “The Tea Party Is Dead”……

Two words for ya Nance’: Dick Lugar !

MADISON, Wis. — The tea party, at least its widespread influence on Republican congressional candidates, “is over,” declared the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party group charged with electing Democrats to the House.

“House Republican incumbents—and their candidates—are running as far away from the Tea Party as they can,” a pre-election DCCC memo provided to Yahoo News reads. “Regardless of whether [Republicans] win or lose, the Tea Party of 2010 is over. They’ve been forced on defense in the message fight all cycle long, and now those who win will have done so by giving up on the Tea Party.”

The memo argues that Republican lawmakers who arose from the tea party are now promoting bipartisanship and willingness to compromise in their re-election bids instead of embracing the hard-line messages that propelled their campaigns two years ago. (more…)

Hoax and Chains…. Obama Admits: “I’m Sort Of A Prop In The Campaign”….

No shit Sherlock.

You’ve been a prop for the hardline industrialized global leftists since they wiped the mayo drool from your mouth at Occidental cafeteria commons, and convinced you to become the “front man” for this Jarrett scheme.

“You know, I was backstage with David Plouffe, some of you guys know he’s sort of a mastermind of campaign organization and we were talking about how as the campaign goes on, we become less relevant. I’m sort of a prop in the campaign. He’s just bothering a bunch of folks, calling, asking what’s going on.”

In the fall of 2007 with the epicenter of early global financial collapse clearly evident in our six (fuse lit Sept 2005), yet no-one paying attention yet, we began researching “The Bigger Scheme”, Keeping Hope A Lie.

Barack was merely a tool then, he remains as such today. (more…)